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Cartoon commentary on local, state, national and world issues.Sun, 04 Nov 2012 12:42:06 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.4By: Mickie Lynnhttps://blog.timesunion.com/derosier/trophies/4315/#comment-15844
Sat, 03 Mar 2012 12:54:57 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/derosier/?p=4315#comment-15844John,
While I certainly got the drift of your cartoon, that the extreme political polarization practiced in current US campaigns and Congressional interactions has made compromise and individual decisions, based on constituent wishes and needs, a thing of the past the term R.I.N.O. was a mystery to me.

So I looked it up on Wikipedia, among other sources and here’s a bit of what I found:

“Republican In Name Only is a pejorative term that refers to a member of the Republican Party of the United States whose political views or actions are considered insufficiently conservative or otherwise not conforming to party positions. The acronym RINO, emerging in the 1990s, is a charge used in campaigns by Republican conservatives against party moderates.” […]

“During Republican primary campaign season, some conservative organizations classify as RINO’s Republicans who fail to adopt their hardline stances. National Federation of Republican Assemblies started the “RINO Hunters’ Club”, which targets candidates soft on taxes, gun rights, and abortion.[ The anti-tax group Club for Growth (which supports the National Federation of Republican Assemblies) invented the “RINO Watch” list to monitor “Republican office holders around the nation who have advanced egregious anti-growth, anti-freedom or anti-free market policies”; other conservative groups published similar lists.”

My own opinion about the very polarized state of debate, dialogue and legislative action is that it doesn’t serve either the people of the US, or the legislators well. It’s not surprising that candidates of both parties are retiring rather than deal with such a narrow, vicious , obstructive work atmosphere.

I can’t imagine just the last couple of years have wiped the memory of the “Wicked Witch of the West” from your consciousness. She still cackles periodically, and there’s always the “Cinder Block” of Harry Reid who not only refuses to look at anything the Republicans offer as suggestions, but does everything he can to prevent anyone else from daring to look as well.

Are you suggesting there are actually any elected Democrats Left who could claim the titles of “Moderates”, “Centrists” or heaven forbid “Deal Makers”. If so, they’re either hiding, or being hid, by a Democrat leadership that demands members “Toe the Line”, which is currently way over to the Left side of center.

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Fri, 02 Mar 2012 13:25:04 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/derosier/?p=4315#comment-15832John, you have got to be kidding. You can’t be that obtuse.
]]>By: markhttps://blog.timesunion.com/derosier/trophies/4315/#comment-15829
Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:38:39 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/derosier/?p=4315#comment-15829An elephant with a weapon and a wall full of trophies, including one human, mounted and displayed. It’s a liberal cartoonist trifecta !!

This is another “So what?” cartoon.

The media and politicians up and down the northeast will do so much drooling over the electoral possibilities that the National Weather Service will have to put out Flash Flood Warnings.

Bill Clinton siding with the Pipeline folks….

Hillary Clinton saying that when politicians (like her) talk favorably about Israel, others shouldn’t assume such talk really means they are favorable towards Israel. It’s just political rhetoric. That is how democracies work.